Tobacco-box.



W. PARKER.

TOBACCO BOX.

APPLICATION FILED myza, 1913.

Patented Nov. 4, 1913.

WILLIAM PARKER, 0F DUNBAR, WEST VIRGINIA.

TOBACCO-BOX.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed May 23, 1913.

Patented Nov. 4,1913.

Serial No. 769,414.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, WILLIAM PARKER, a

citizen of the United States, resident of Dunbar, in the county of Kanawha and State of est Virginia, have made a certain new and useful Invention in Tobacco-Boxes; and I declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the invention, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and to letters or figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Figure 1. is a perspective view of the invention as applied. Fig. 2 is a central longitudinal section of the same on the line 22 Fig. .3. Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3-3 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the attachment.

The invention has relation to tobacco boxes, and it consists in the novel construction and combinations of parts, constituting an improved attachment for such a box, whereby its use is designed to be facilitated, as hereinafter set forth.

In the accompanying drawings, illustrating the invention, the numeral 2, indicates an ordinary tobacco box, having a cover or lid 3, at one end. The box is narrower from side to side than from front to rear, and is made comparatively deep to suit the pocket. It is not easy to get the tobacco out of such a box in the free manner desired for filling a pipe, and in order to obviate this difiiculty an elongated sto-pplate 4, is fitted to the mouth margin 5, by means of a rim flange 6, said plate having at one end a concave margin or notch 7, which with the marginal end of the mouth of the box, forms a suitable opening 8, in the corner, for the discharge of tobacco into a pipe. In the central portion of this'stop plate 4 is provided a small opening 9, forming a bearing for a loosener rod or wire 10, having a ring or handle 11, above the plate, and a forked or spurred lower end. This loosener wire is designed to be forced through the tobacco to the bottom of the charge in the box, and by turning and by otherwise agitating the rod upon and through the bearing 9, the tobacco is brought to loose condition for a free discharge through the opening 8, at the corner of the box, into a pipe without waste.

I claim:

In a tobacco box, a mouth plate having a marginal connection flange, a concave end, and a central bearing, and a rod extending through said bearing, said rod having a spurred lower end, and a handle end above the plate; said rod being capable of reciprocating and oscillating movement in said bearing.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature, in presence of two witnesses.

FRANK CANTY, JOHN PARKER.

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